- EnvVarSource api doc bug fixes ([#91194](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91194), [@wawa0210](https://github.com/wawa0210)) [SIG Apps]
- Fixed: log timestamps now include trailing zeros to maintain a fixed width ([#91207](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91207), [@iamchuckss](https://github.com/iamchuckss)) [SIG Apps and Node]

- Fixed a bug that prevents PersistentVolume that has a Claim UID which doesn't exist in local cache but exists in ETCD from being updated to Released phase. (#105211, @xiaopingrubyist) [SIG Apps]
- Fixed architecture within manifest for non `amd64` etcd images. (#105484, @saschagrunert) [SIG API Machinery]

   *
   * <p>The exact C++ equivalent is the MurmurHash3_x86_32 function (Murmur3A).
   *
   * <p>This method is called {@code murmur3_32_fixed} because it fixes a bug in the {@code
   * HashFunction} returned by the original {@code murmur3_32} method.
   *
   * @since 31.0
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("IdentifierName") // the best we could do for adjacent digit blocks

- Fixes a bug of identifying the correct containerd process. ([#97888](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97888), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Fixes add-on manager leader election to use leases instead of endpoints, similar to what kube-controller-manager does in 1.20 ([#98968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98968), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105400, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixes a regression on Kubelet restart and pod statuses. (#105560, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fixes kubelet memory regression in 1.22 (#105452, @liggitt) [SIG Node]
- Fixes the kubelet's ability to restart static pods (#105075, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Fixed a 1.28 regression around restarting init containers in the right order relative to normal containers ([#120440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120440), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

    internal `DiskLruCache` assumes an inode-like file system, where it's fine to delete files that
    are currently being read or written. On Windows the file system forbids this so we must be more
    careful when deleting and renaming files.

 *  Fix: Don't crash on Java 8u252 which introduces an API previously found only on Java 9 and

- Fixed memory leak in endpointSliceTracker ([#92838](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92838), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Fixed node data lost in kube-scheduler for clusters with imbalance on number of nodes across zones ([#93355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93355), [@maelk](https://github.com/maelk)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Fixed error handling in `EnsureAdminClusterRoleBindingImpl`.
   ([#122893](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122893), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))
- Fixed incorrect error logging for `syncCronJob`.
   ([#122493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122493), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))

_2023-12-17_

We took too long to cut this release and there's a lot of changes in it. We've been busy.

Although this release is labeled _alpha_, the only unstable thing in it is our new APIs. This
release has many critical bug fixes and is safe to run in production. We're eager to stabilize our
new APIs so we can get out of alpha.

 *  New: Support Java 21's virtual threads (‘OpenJDK Project Loom’). We changed OkHttp's internals